Mexico High Level Meeting Communiqué

First High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development
Co-operation: Building Towards an Inclusive Post-2015 Development Agenda
Mexico High Level Meeting Communiqué, 16 April 2014.

Development Effectiveness & the Role of Civil Society Organisations

IDEAS' Global Assembly in Barbados

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Závěrečné zprávy

"While the participatory development agenda adopted by the EC in 2000 is gradually changing
the operation of the CSO channel, the EC has not yet de veloped a clear and consistent
strategy on how to use the CSO channel in line with its stated policy objectives. Moreover, the
prevailing culture within the EC is not conductive to such strategic management of the CSO
channel because of disincentives such as: limited political backing; the administrative priority
towards disbursing funding, the financial control of aid and short term results; the lack of
space to establish strategic partnerships with CSO; and institutional fragmentation at both the
headquar ter and delegation level. The CSO channel has had positive effects at project level
but questions remain about the sustainable impact of these activities. The added value of the
CSO channel is not sufficiently used by the EC, while good practices are not underpinned by
a coherent and consistently applied strategy throughout all EC external services."